Jeff Wilson's rule of "bad weather = good birds" has proven true today here in Lewis County!
This morning (9/5/2011) I joked with my wife that we had experienced a major shorebird fallout, as our farm pond hosted 5 Solitary Sandpipers, a record high count. No other shorebirds, of course, just them. This afternoon (around 1:00 p.m.) I swung by our under- construction new wastewater treatment plant in the rain just to see if there was anything interesting. I was greeted by a shoreline covered with shorebirds! Before today, the Lewis County list had 6 species of shorebirds on it (including Killdeer, Snipe, and Woodcock). I added 5 more in a few minutes. The tally was:
Least Sandpiper 27 Short-billed Dowitcher 16 Solitary Sandpiper 5 Pectoral Sandpiper 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Sanderling 1 Killdeer 4All but the Killdeer and Solitary are first County records (to my knowledge). Hopefully in the future this new plant will continue to produce goodies; but it remains to be seen how the water levels will be maintained and to what extent access will be permitted. It is not yet in operation.
Bill Pulliam
Lewis County, TN
=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================
The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with
first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation.
You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds
you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should
appear in the first paragraph.
_____________________________________________________________
To post to this mailing list, simply send email to:
tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
_____________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send email to:
tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
______________________________________________________________TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s)
endorse the views or opinions expressed
by the members of this discussion group.
Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN
wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
------------------------------
Assistant Moderator Andy Jones
Cleveland, OH
-------------------------------
Assistant Moderator Dave Worley
Rosedale, VA
--------------------------------
Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan
Clemson, SC
__________________________________________________________
Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society
web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________
